Larsen Inlet is an

inlet An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea. Overview In marine geogra ...

, long in a north–south direction and wide, between Cape Longing and

Cape Sobral Cape Sobral () is a high, mainly snow-covered elevation which surmounts the south end of Sobral Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It forms the east side of the entrance to Mundraga Bay and west side of the entrance to Larse ...

along the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Carl Anton Larsen, a Norwegian whaling captain, reported a large

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

in this area in 1893, and Larsen's name was suggested for the feature by

Edwin Swift Balch The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "ƿine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is Eadƿine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures. People * Edwin of Northumbria (died ...

in 1902. The inlet was re-identified and charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. It was ice-filled in 1986 then mostly ice-free in 1988. Mount Brading lies 4 nautical miles (7 km) east of the northeast corner of Larsen Inlet.

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Inlets of Graham Land Nordenskjöld Coast {{NordenskjöldCoast-geo-stub